Forgive me, Lord, I'm a day late in celebrating the birthday of Cordwainer Smith (1913-1966), a great sci-fi writer born in Milwaukee.

But it's never too late to introduce yourself to Smith's dynamic prose and wild imagination. In honor of his birthday, QuasarDragon posted a page with links to free text and audio versions of some of Smith's stories. | July 12, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Former Wisconsinite Mark Rylance won the first Tony Award of the night Sunday, for best actor in a featured role for "Twelfth Night."

Rylance, a University School of Milwaukee alumnus, was also nominated for a second award, for leading actor in a play for "Richard III." He lost in that category to Bryan Cranston, who won the Tony for "All the Way." | June 8, 2014»Read Full Article(2)

The Pink Banana Theatre Company is calling its 10th annual one-act play festival "The Honeymoon Is Over." But the eight short plays unspooling over this fun, two-hour night feel more like a reprise of last year's festival, aptly named "Game Night."

Once again, Pink Banana is asking why we play the games we do — and what happens when our games grow stale, transforming a relationship's potentially liberating rituals into overly scripted routines. | June 8, 2014»Read Full Article